Person:Daniel Brewer (4)

In his will, dated 12 January 1645/6 and proved 20 May 1647, Daniel Brewer of Roxbury, husbandman, divided his lands between his wife Joanna and his son Daniel, and bequeathed money and movables to son Nathaniel and daughters Ann, Joanna and Sarah; Daniel and the three daughters are stated to be unmarried; Isaac Morrell and Edward Bridge to be overseers; witnessed by William Dennison and Edward Bridge; signed by mark ("D B") [SPR NS 1:25].

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Daniel Brewer, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   ORIGIN: Unknown
   MIGRATION: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150]
   FIRST RESIDENCE:Roxbury
   OCCUPATION: Husbandman.
   BIRTH: About 1600 based on birth of eldest child.
   DEATH: "Brother Brewer died of an ulcer in his lungs which pierced through into his bowels & emptied thither to his great swelling & torment" 28 March 1646 [RChR 173].
   MARRIAGE: Wife Joanna named in will of 12 January 1645/6; "_____ Brewer wife of Daniel Brewer" admitted to Roxbury church immediately after Daniel Brewer himself [RChR 75]; since the third child, born in England, was Joanna, it is likely that she was his only wife, and they were married in England by about 1625; she died in Roxbury 7 February 1688/9, aged 87, and therefore born about 1602, or perhaps a few years later.